{{Short description|Family of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Saprospiraceae | authority = Krieg et al. 2012<ref>{{cite book |vauthors = Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB | chapter = Family III. ''Saprospiraceae'' fam. nov. |veditors= Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology | edition = 2nd | volume = 4 | publisher = Springer | location = New York | year = 2010 | page = 358}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = <ref name="LPSN">{{cite web|vauthors=Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/saprospiraceae |title=''Saprospiraceae'' |access-date=June 24, 2021 |website=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}</ref> | subdivision = * "''Candidatus'' Aquirestis" <small>Hahn and Schauer 2007</small> * ''Aureispira'' <small>Hosoya et al. 2006</small> <!-- Epiflobacter is a misspelling of Epifloribacter. --> * "''Candidatus'' Epifloribacter" <small>corrig. Xia et al. 2008</small> * ''Membranicola'' <small>Li et al. 2016</small> * "''Rubidimonas''" <small>Yoon et al. 2012</small> * ''Saprospira'' <small>Gross 1911 (Approved Lists 1980)</small> }}

The family '''Saprospiraceae''' is composed of environmental bacteria.<ref>Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.</ref> The members of this family are important to the breakdown of complex organic compounds in the environment.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Simon Jon McIlroy |author2=Per Halkjær Nielsen |chapter=The Family ''Saprospiraceae'' |editor=Eugene Rosenberg |editor2=Edward F. DeLong |editor3=Stephen Lory |editor4=Erko Stackebrandt |editor5=Fabiano Thompson |title=The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea |date=2014 |pages=863–889 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_138 |isbn=978-3-642-38953-5 }}</ref>

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